People are losing their shit with no regard for how much shit they need to be keeping in reserve, in order to lose later.

It was great to meet so many #Makers & #Pythonistas at PyLadies meetup! ✨ We enjoyed presenting Pytch to participants & trying out coding tasks together to make an interactive Pytch game! 💻 Thanks PyLadiesDub for inviting us and thanks Fingal Makerspace for such a great place!🙌

Yeah, that lawsuit really smacked the Archive down. No bold moves in the future. Ah, what's this blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/new…

We received feedback from a grant application that included "While your impact metrics & thoughtful approach to addressing systemic issues in AI are impressive, some reviewers noted the inherent risks of navigating this space without alignment with larger corporate players,"

European Researchers' Night is back once again on Friday, 27th of September! There's a great line-up of events where you can hear all about the fantastic research going on in Trinity! Check out the programme here 👉start-ern.org/programme-frid…

We haven't needed programmers since the advent of automated programming in the 1970s. Once you have a high level language like COBOL and a compiler to automatically turn it into actual code, business professionals can create their own applications without having to rely on

🎉 Huge congrats to Prof Brendan Tangney and the @CodePlus team for winning Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year at the @WomeninSTEM_ie Awards 🏆 CodePlus is breaking barriers in tech by inspiring young women in CS—an amazing and well-deserved recognition! 👏 #WomenInSTEM

This is a very good takedown by TechCrunch of the claim today from Microsoft & a16z that machines should have 'the right to learn'. Recommend reading the whole article.

It's timely to highlight the life & work of computer scientist Lynn Conway. In the late 1960s, she transitioned from male to female and was sacked by IBM as a result. For some years, she went underground and, for the rest of her career, worked as a woman - herstory unknown.

BASIC Co-Inventor Thomas Kurtz Has Passed Away hackaday.com/2024/11/15/bas…

Ireland has one of the worst third-level student-staff ratios in the developed world. 📢Ask your election candidates to #InvestInHigherEd and back students. #GeneralElection2024 #GE24 Union of Students in Ireland DCU Students' Union Maynooth Students' Union (MSU) UCC Students' Union UCD Students' Union // Aontas na Mac Léinn COBÁC Trinity College Dublin Students' Union 🌈🇵🇸 TU Dublin Students' Union UL Student Life Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

🎉 Congrats to Prof. Carl Vogel, winner of the Trinity Inventor Award at the 2024 Trinity Innovation Awards! His pioneering work in the Generative AI revolution in text processing through LLMs is driving innovation and real-world impact. 👏👏 tcd.ie/scss/news/2024…

The copyleft community already provides models for such license schemes. (Open Source and Creative Commons) The problem: AI companies such as yours don't actually respect them Yann LeCun

Berkeley Mono v2 is here + the new U.S. Graphics Company website!

What fantastic news! 👏👏

Sad to see Galway County Council shutting down the amazing and iconic Misunderstood Heron on the shores of Killary Harbour. Amazing food and lovely people. 8 jobs gone unfortunately.

“Grok explain this?” “Grok context?” “Grok is this rea—”

Says something about the priorities of university admins that they mobilized to rapidly enact sweeping institutional changes during the COVID crisis (because it threatened The Money) but not AI, the gravest danger to higher ed in modern history, which merely threatens learning.

SCSS Prof. Gaye Stephens explored the ‘Winters of AI’ and its evolution since the 1950s at a full-house GenAI in healthcare event hosted by School of Nursing & Midwifery, TCD School of Computer Science and Statistics, TCD Attendees tackled real-world scenarios, ending with a lively panel discussion.